Carlton Burgess has a problem with what happens to cars in a whole lot of movies. First on his list: the car that suddenly changes wheels halfway through a scene.

Try any of the early Herbie movies and you will find the car changed wheels inexplicably. The high speed shots were done using wide profile tires and rims and the stunts were often done with skinny, narrow ones.

That Extra Two Inches of Gas Pedal

Whenever we’re hot to blow someone off at a stoplight, you can bet your ass we’ve got the gas pedal mashed right to the mat. But, as Carlton Burgess points out, in the movies, anybody drag racing has a different technique:

But one very annoying niggle in car movies is the director’s need to glam up drag races by showing you a picture of the drivers foot pressing down the last 3/4 of the throttle mid-race. As if anyone in the middle of a drag race isn’t already flat-out! Who would drive a drag race with only 1/4 throttle?

The Bullitt Effect

You can’t ignore that Bullitt has one of the greatest chase sequences in film. But it’s also got more inconsistencies, errors and continuity gaffes in that four minutes than most films have in two hours. Dom Miliano explains: